Andrew's first novel, a coming-of-age story titled Heavy Metal, was published in February 2017 by Autumn House Press.

About Heavy Metal

Winner of the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize, selected by William Lychack

A real gut-punch of a novel, Heavy Metal sings with energy and beauty and honest abandon about grief and hope and trying to find one’s balance in an unsteady world. At a certain point, the young narrator shoots a bottle out of the sky. “The glass explodes like a bottle rocket,” as he tells it, “the shards glinting in the firelight underneath the gray-lit sky.” The same can be said for this novel and family, both of which explode “like a bottle rocket, the shards glinting in the firelight underneath the gray-lit sky.”

—William Lychack, author of The Architect of Flowers and The Wasp Eater